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Detectives dot new Well, it's time for us to bring

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you another twice told tale, and we're focusing on a

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script by Bob Tauman. Pauman with Gildaud wrote for the

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Adventures of Sam Spade and did a lot of radio work,

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including working on Voyage of the Scarlet Queen. Now, as usual,

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we will take a look at a script he wrote

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and then see how it was recycled on another program

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down the line. First off from August one of nineteen

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forty eight, Here is Sam Spade and the Dry Martini Keeper.

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Speaker 3: Agency, Me, sweetheart, how did it go?

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Speaker 4: It was the end, Effie, But the end.

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Speaker 3: Oh Sam.

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Speaker 5: Not another one of those society things.

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Speaker 4: Defanswer what you mean by society?

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, Sam, cafe society cocktails for two hands

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across the table. Make it another little fashion.

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Speaker 6: Let's not lose our head, Ivy, nothing but double Martini's

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very dry with two olive Sweetheart.

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Speaker 5: Too, Holi, Oh Sam, it's not overdoing.

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Speaker 6: It was all overdone, sweetheart. That's what cracking. Oh, stay

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right where you are. I'll be right down to mix

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up my report on the dry Martini caper.

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Speaker 4: Get it.

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Speaker 6: He look sober and wise? Is it owl? Sober? Is

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a judge?

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Speaker 5: Oh well, the way you talked on the phone, I

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thought you'd drowned. The shamrock kiss, the black Betty splice,

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the main brace decorated, the mahogany made a Dutch bargain

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or in the word going to give a chinaman a

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music classic, Effie.

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Speaker 6: I wish you'd spend more time with Harper's Bizarre while

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I'm gone. Unless were the thesaurus of slang, I didn't

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know I could say that, are you sober well?

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Speaker 5: I've been riding the tune drinking adam bail and if

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you don't believe it's just ask me to walk.

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Speaker 6: Okay, here's he tozzy, arms of kimball, eyes glazed.

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Speaker 7: Yes.

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Speaker 6: Then the tip of the forefinger to the tip of

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the nose.

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Speaker 7: Sham.

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Speaker 5: It makes me dizzy.

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Speaker 6: Is he Gillaspie exactly? And you are not sewn up, shagged, shellac, chickered, stuccoed, tap,

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shackled stiff o or real crazy?

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Speaker 8: Well you know this good?

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Speaker 6: Not try this one? Yes, pragu sitting fasture Lynn's cruciform

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what sheeese style? That's it? Now placed the notebook just

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a little higher. Good. Now, apply the tip of the

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pencil at the top of the fool's cap and proceed.

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Visit Date August fist nineteen forty eight two Missus Netta Martini,

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one thousand Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, from Samuel Spade license

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umb onenty seventy five nine six. Subject Dear Netta. The

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first I know of the caper was day before yesterday morning,

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when I saw your husband's picture in the paper. It

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was one of those lovingly retouched executive type photographs of

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a man in his late forties or early fifties. Graying

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at the temples and wearing an embalmbed man of distinction look.

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The story was headlined, corporation had waylaid by a mysterious

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assailant chauffeur, foils would be kidnappers and offices of Martini

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Trading Company. The item under it wasn't as thrilling as

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the headline, sat as if he'd been knocked down for

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his wallet and the attempt at kidnapping had been dreamed

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up by a bored city news reporter. I tossed it

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in the waste basket along with my more mail, and

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went back to the Police Gazette. On page three, the

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phone range you need garage Harry speaking miss speed one moment.

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Who's calling Gordon Martini? Not Gordon Martini? The corporation head

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waylaid by a mysterious assailant chairman.

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Speaker 4: Of the board, and there's nothing but serious about it?

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Speaker 6: Then what are you doing on this phone?

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Speaker 4: I can't talk on the phone.

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Speaker 6: Where are you in a hospital?

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Speaker 4: I left that.

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Speaker 9: Pest house this morning. I'm at my residence, one house

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in Marina Boula Bah. It will take you exactly twenty

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minutes by cab. You will meet me in front of

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the building and we'll have our conference in my car

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on the route to the office.

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Speaker 6: Where's your office downtown Post Street? Oh, why don't I

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meet you there.

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Speaker 4: I'm a busy man.

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Speaker 9: I have a full calendar. I'm already lated due to

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all that hospital red tape. But I can fit you

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into my schedule if you're hurry, and.

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Speaker 4: I'll look alive.

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Speaker 10: Man.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's a little early in the morning, but I'm

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trying on good.

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Speaker 4: What will you want for a retainer?

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Speaker 6: I'll let you know if I decide to take the job.

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Speaker 4: I left twenty minutes. I'll expect you.

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Speaker 6: I should have looked more alive. It took me two

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minutes to get out of the straight, one minute the

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flying down a cab at eighteen minutes to reach your

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address letter, a total of twenty one minutes. As my

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taxi drew up to the curb in front of the

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canopied entrance to the corner apartment house one thousand Marina,

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I saw your husband pacing indignantly up and down in

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front of the entrance, pausing only the glare at the

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outsized chronometer on his left wrist. His gray Hamburg was

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perched to top an outsized turbin of gauze bandage that

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decorated his head.

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Speaker 9: Ah, I used faith exactly one minute and twenty two seconds.

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Speaker 11: Late.

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Speaker 9: Hours are made of minutes, Minutes are made of seconds.

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And killing this seemingly negligible interval of time, you have

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wounded an hour.

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Speaker 6: Oh I have Well, I'm sorry. The traffic's pretty heavy

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out here this hour of the morning.

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Speaker 9: You know you should have started a minute in twenty

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two seconds earlier.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry. There was a bore on the telephone, kept

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talking about how valuable his time was.

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Speaker 9: Well, don't apologize, only waste more time. Here's your check,

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one hundred dollars. My cars just around the corner. I

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paid that show for a large salary. We mustn't keep

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him waiting. In the meantime, you may as well start

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earning your fee.

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Speaker 6: I've been earning it for the past twenty two minutes

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and twenty two seconds.

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Speaker 9: Lait I suspected as much you'd have a car.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you mean one man drives all that.

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Speaker 9: I see him, that rascally chaffeur of mind sleep in

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the backseat, all right, come out of there, you hey

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watching me?

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Speaker 6: I was behind him in a little bit of right.

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The shock of the rapid fire thirty caliber slugs lifted

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him off his feet and knocked him against me. I

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went down under his three hundred pounds of dead weight

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by the time I rolled him off at me and

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got up. The gunman and jumped out of the limousine

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and into a grace of van that was double parking

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alongside in the welder of traffic on the boulevard. I

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didn't dare risk drawing a shot after him, but I

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did get the first three numbers of the license plate

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before it buried itself in a heavy stream of am commuters.

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That's when the air changed from exhaust fumes to something

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out of a Persian garden. I turned and looked for

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the first time into your nile green eyes letter and

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saw you twisting a handkerchief in your pale hands. I

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might have loved beside the shallowmar but I'm in a boulevard.

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They look like hysterics.

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Speaker 12: That ahead, Who did it?

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Speaker 13: I'm sawing? Don't lie to me. Why don't they come

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with the ambulance. Why are all those people standing here

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on they're scaring it?

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Speaker 6: Make them go stop it? Well there, that's better, come

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out over here. Who are you his wife.

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Speaker 13: Yes, and it was all my fault. This is the end.

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Speaker 14: I called Ernie out the window and asked him to

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come upstairs. I wanted him to return some landery that

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sent the wrong color piece.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, who's Ernie.

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Speaker 14: He's our chauffeur. I was looking for the exchange slip

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when we heard the shots.

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Speaker 3: Is he dead this time?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I go to pieces of course, Gordon.

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Speaker 13: He had so many enemies.

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Speaker 12: He didn't drink.

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Speaker 13: Well, you know, people dropped us like flies.

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Speaker 6: I certainly dropped your husband.

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Speaker 7: Are you a policeman?

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Speaker 6: No, what I'll do until the real thing comes along,

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which is right now. If I were you, lady, I

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had got back upstairs and relaxed. I got the US

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center up.

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Speaker 13: Yes, I suppose you're right. Poor god. And he looks

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so natural stretched out on a pavement. Yeah, I keep

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thinking he'll get up and stagger on it elevator. He

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didn't drink at all.

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Speaker 14: Well, go on with you, all right, I'm going, Oh, Ernie,

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where did you go.

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Speaker 6: Down at the garage. I had a car driving pull

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mister Martine. It's all my fault.

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Speaker 13: No, Ernie, it's mine. If I only hadn't mislaid that

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ex James Slick.

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Speaker 14: Know when I called you out the window to come

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and get that package?

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Speaker 6: Oh oh that when only got here? Who's the witness me?

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Oh Spain lost another client? Huh not quiet. I hadn't

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carshed the check yet. I only got him anyway.

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Speaker 12: All right, Clara space and there.

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Speaker 8: Let him throw that stretcher step over here.

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Speaker 6: Out of the crowd. Sam. I want to get that statement. Yeah, okay,

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Gerry take it down. Got a pencil, yeah, and I

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want it back. That's having. This guy is Gordon Martini,

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headed up a local firm, the Martini Trading Company. Last

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night he was working later at the office. Got boinged

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owed me this morning. I didn't know why. I thought

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maybe he wanted a bodyguard. Anyway you needed one. Gunman

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was crouched in the backseat of the limousine, shove the

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car being out when Martini opened the door. I mean,

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doesn't get a good look at him. You can see

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why the way it's closed in those side windows. Corn

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car and stop drooling. You can't afford one. You're getting

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all this? What about the getaway Martini fell on top

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of me. I saw the getaway car on the back

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of his head. Car was a gray sedan. The back

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of his head was a standard make too. Only got

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the first three digits of license plate five D nine.

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Anything else, Yeah, give me back my pencil. The homicide

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boys want some help. They know my fee. Mister Speed,

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This is Martini. Why aren't you on Ernie upstairs getting

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your alibis shaped up?

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Speaker 13: Please? I can't face the questions just yet.

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Speaker 14: Would it be legal if I just avoided them till

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I can collect myself.

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Speaker 6: I don't know about legal, but it might be smart.

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Speaker 13: Where can we talk?

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Speaker 6: What do you suggest?

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Speaker 14: Well, there's a little cocktail lounge up on Lombard we're

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earning I'll. I mean, well, it's it's just around the corn.

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Speaker 6: Very handy. Let's go.

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Speaker 13: Against my mother's advice.

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Speaker 14: I should have listened, but well that's why I married

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mister Martini.

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Speaker 6: Well that braces up to nineteen forty three, and it's

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suddenly a quarter or twelve.

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Speaker 13: You're just like him, always holding a stopwatch over my head.

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Speaker 6: Always.

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Speaker 12: Well, he drank, you know, you told me that.

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Speaker 14: But it's much more important than you think. He often

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fell down and bumped his head.

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Speaker 6: I mean that mysterious assailun that way laid him last

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night in his office was a bubble Martini.

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Speaker 14: Two pictures full before dinner, so learn he had to

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carry him up to his office.

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Speaker 6: Oh what did he go up there for?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 14: We had an appoint when the vice president of the firm,

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mister Nesbit. Something had come up and he wanted Gordon

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to sign some papers.

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Speaker 13: I don't know what it wasn't.

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Speaker 14: The first time I waited outside the car after Ernie

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had taken him upstairs.

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Speaker 13: He came back to the car and we talked.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Ernie has alibis upstairs, downstairs, long around the house.

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Speaker 14: Well, then when the others came out and Gordon didn't,

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Ernie went.

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Speaker 6: Upstairs to see why mister Lesbeth and who else?

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Speaker 14: Mary Callahan secretary, No, she's an attorney.

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Speaker 13: And if you think everything was legal between those two.

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Speaker 7: Well, but after all, who am I to called the

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kettle black?

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Speaker 6: Oh? What are you trying to tell me? That she

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got him drunk so they can make him sign some papers,

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That he got himself drunk so he couldn't write his name,

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or that he just got drunk and fell.

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Speaker 13: Down Between you and me, I think she pushed him

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down a flight of stairs. In his condition, he never remembered.

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Speaker 6: Why are you putting my finger on the callahan Dame?

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Speaker 13: So what would you think she was the last one

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out of the building.

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Speaker 6: Why didn't you want to tell our list of the police.

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Speaker 14: Well, I didn't want to talk about his drinking. Things

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were bad enough already. That would have been the end.

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Speaker 6: Oh, let's it's got an answers. Any what do you

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want me to do for you?

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Speaker 13: Prove that she did it Nernie didn't.

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Speaker 6: I'll let you take care of Bernie.

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Speaker 14: Oh No, I don't want to alibi him unless I

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have to. He might get the wrong idea.

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Speaker 6: You mean I've got the wrong idea.

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Speaker 13: He might think it meant I still care for him,

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and I don't. I can't stand him anymore the way

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he choose those tooth bits. And besides, if his alibi

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is too good, I.

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Speaker 14: Might have trouble about that car being in the backseat

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of my car.

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Speaker 6: Pardon me, It sounded as if you said you might

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have trouble about a car being in the back city

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of your car.

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Speaker 13: That's what I said.

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Speaker 6: Where is your car in the garage?

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Speaker 13: But somebody had it out this morning. They scraped the

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fender coming back in, and they ran in the wall.

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They must have been in an awful hurry.

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Speaker 6: Tell me this car here is it wouldn't be a

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grace of that? Yes, license number?

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Speaker 14: Oh wait a minute, it's on my keyring up here

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five nine?

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Speaker 6: N enough. Why didn't you tell me this before?

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Speaker 14: Well, I couldn't get up the nerve after I heard

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you tell that policeman the gun that killed Gordon was

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a car being, and the grace Ofdan and all that.

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Speaker 13: Well, at the.

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Speaker 6: End, I hoped you were right, but I didn't think

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so when I went to look at the grace of

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that and your garage, and I knew you were wrong,

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dead wrong. It was the getaway car, all right, and

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the car being, as you know, it's proven later to

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be the one that killed your husband. But Ernie had

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turned into a very poor suspect. Indeed, he was hugging

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the carpet between the front and rear seats and nudged him.

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He didn't move. He'd been shot at close arrange and

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Gordon Martini, and the killer had used only one slug.

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It was planted in the base of his brain, which

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made him not only a very poor suspect, but a

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very dead one. The makers of Wild Road Cream oil

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it's grand for training children's hair. And now back to

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the dry Martini Caper to night's adventure with Sam.

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Speaker 15: Spade Latini Trading Company.

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Speaker 5: That afternoon, I'm sorry, if Nebod is in conference, I'll

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see that he gets your message well.

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Speaker 7: What can I do for you?

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Speaker 6: I would like to see miss Callahan.

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Speaker 5: Miss Callahan is in conference with Miss.

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Speaker 6: Good I would like to see them both, But I.

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Speaker 7: Have allders not to.

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Speaker 6: Did you do not have to?

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Speaker 12: I will just a minute.

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Speaker 13: You can't go break like that, and I'll tell you

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something else.

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Speaker 12: You won't ever get away with it. Why everyone in

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this town knows about your underworld connection?

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Speaker 3: Why you daughtering old Wood?

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Speaker 16: When I get through with you, if you don't go

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to the gas chamber for Gordon Martini's murder, you wish you.

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Speaker 12: If I go to the gas chamber, it'll be for

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killing you not going.

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Speaker 5: Oh why didn't I have witnesses here.

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Speaker 6: Miss Callahan to hear that you weren't talking loud enough?

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I didn't hear a thing.

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Speaker 12: Well, come on in here and I'll tell you a

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thing or two. Close that door.

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Speaker 6: Now, sit down, Franks, I listen better on my feet.

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Speaker 12: Oh so you're the detective Netta Martini employed?

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Speaker 8: Eh? What's she paying you?

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Speaker 6: That'll depend on how much I have to do for.

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Speaker 7: I'll tell you how much you will have to do for.

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You'll have to make a case against me, and that's

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not going to be easy.

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Speaker 6: Why do you think she's had to get you.

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Speaker 12: Why Indeed, for years, this mothy and mouthpiece, this paw

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boiled posture, has been victimizing poor Garden, taking advantage of

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his weakness for drawn. Now that she's liquidated him, she

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appears with fifty five percent of the common stock. Bode

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even enough? Why you ward you an old fool? I

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said he bothered his death and threw an attachment on

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those stocks on ethical but perfectly legal.

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Speaker 7: But you're not even a prophecy.

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Speaker 3: You're nothing but a bumbling all in bed.

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Speaker 14: Now he's gonna call in the auditors over those books

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of yours, the dean of double entry, mister Spain, work work?

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Speaker 6: Will you save this for the court room? Saying, now

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you've convinced me you're both crooking, I'll say that you

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both go up for something. That's a promise.

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Speaker 12: Mister Spade, I gave you credit for better sense. Do

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you know that this maduci of the magistrate's court, this

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poppy of a hall of justice, tricked him into changing

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the beneficiary of his insurance the very night she pushed

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him down the stair, And.

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Speaker 5: You were all in favor of it, when you thought

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you had the controlling interest in.

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Speaker 7: The company answered that missus Spain.

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Speaker 13: He can't answer that.

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Speaker 6: Good good, I'm glad one of you is tap right.

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They lost for words. Now I only want to know

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one thing, and I want a straight answer, and of

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either one of your starts off on another speech, I'm

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going to push you into the narest cloak room and

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lock you in together.

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Speaker 12: Why you would he did?

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Speaker 6: Try me? Sweetheart?

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Speaker 12: What do you want to know about this Amazon ambulance chaser?

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This till me the crapicqu.

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Speaker 6: I watch it?

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Speaker 7: Well? What do you want to know.

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Speaker 6: About Martini's insurance policy? Now you say he changed the beneficiary,

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please answer in ten words or less.

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Speaker 11: Who was the.

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Speaker 6: Beneficiary and who is the beneficiary?

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Speaker 12: Now I'll have to answer that question in two parts.

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Speaker 7: The beneficiary was his wife.

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Speaker 5: He changed it to the Martini Trading Company, a corporation

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of the state of California.

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Speaker 6: Thank you and goodbye, Mary Callahan, And that meta took

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the heat off of you over the time being, which

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made things tough for me, because Callahan and Nesbitt were

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so horrible. I never wanted to see the again, even

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to testify against them in court. I was sure of

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one thing. None of you would pulled the trigger of

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that car. Being there had been a hired killer behind it,

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and the way he operated taking crazy chances in broad

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daylight and a crowded street told me an important thing

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about it. That night, I made the rounds of the

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joints and a plant called the bing room. I found

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a bouncer who had tossed out a customer that'd run

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up a bill and tried to play it for a

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thousand dollar check. He sent me to the Atlas Hotel.

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The Atlas Hotel is off a third street, down to

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the railroad yards. Not even a plea bank, but please

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sickened and died a long time ago. They couldn't take it,

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and fil the look of the guests sprawled out in

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the mission furniture of the lobby, they wouldn't be able

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to much longer. A half dead room clerk came back

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to the land of the living long enough to mutter

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a room number and wave me feebly toward a flight

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of prummy stairs. Yeah what do you want, you hack heartman?

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Speaker 12: Hey, you got anything for me?

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Speaker 11: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I got those for you. Get back in the room.

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I'll tell you all about it. Yeah, Well, come on in,

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drop the ship.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I'll cop it.

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Speaker 8: I'll fix you.

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Speaker 12: I'll cut your cord, cut you up.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad you did that. You make it easy for me,

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and I'll get over it.

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Speaker 13: There.

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Speaker 6: Leave me alone.

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Speaker 11: Leave me alone.

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Speaker 6: I'm not feeling you can feel a lot worse. Who

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hires you to put the burn on? Martini?

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Speaker 12: You don't get nothing out of me?

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Speaker 6: Who gave you that check?

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Speaker 12: Leave me alone?

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Speaker 6: I got all night hack and I feel better than

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you do. What you doing? That check? I'll shake it

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if your teeth come out with it?

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Speaker 12: Come on, all right, all right, stub it, stub it.

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I don't feel so good.

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Speaker 6: Okay, where pocket god reach, I'll get it. There was

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a company check, which is what i'd expected for one

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thousand dollars drawn on the golden gate Prust and Loan,

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but I wasn't expecting to find the signature on the

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bottom line. He was signed in a bold, firm hand,

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Gordon Martini. There was the penman on this.

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Speaker 12: He wrote it himself right in front of me.

475
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Speaker 6: What was it supposed to be for?

476
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Speaker 10: Hey?

477
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Speaker 12: He wanted I should knock off his brother.

478
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Speaker 6: You get mixed up. He's dead, Ay, that's what I mean.

479
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Gordon Martini's dead.

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Speaker 12: The papers got it wrong. That was his brother, his

481
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twin brother, and another guy that chauffeur kept hanging around

482
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the garage so I couldn't get out. I had to

483
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burn him too.

484
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Speaker 6: You know what you're saying, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm

485
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making sense.

486
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Speaker 12: I'll get out of here.

487
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Speaker 11: I'm getting steamed.

488
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Speaker 6: I'll let it worry. Yeah. I got a nice, cool

489
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place all picked out for you. After I turned hack

490
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over to the cops, I did what checking I could

491
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on my own at that time of night. As nearly

492
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as I could learn, Gordon Martini could never have had

493
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a brother, twin or otherwise. He was a first child,

494
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his mother died in childbirth, and his father died one

495
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month later. So I went back to the offices of

496
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the Martini Trading Company, glass keyed my way in and

497
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made a quick risk of it. There. I learned the

498
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signature on the check was indeed Gordon's, but that he

499
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had closed out his account at that bank the day

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he wrote it. I thought about that on the way

501
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out to your apartment.

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Speaker 11: Sam.

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Speaker 13: I've been calling and calling trying to reach you up

504
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in so worried at the end this time you might

505
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be right.

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Speaker 6: Fix me a drink well, there's.

507
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Speaker 14: Nothing in the house but those prepared martiniz Gordon used

508
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to drink?

509
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Speaker 7: Is that all right?

510
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Speaker 4: No?

511
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Speaker 6: But fixing me one anyway? Never mind the ice. It's

512
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not morning yet, but I hate myself already.

513
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Speaker 13: Why don't you just relax and let me get it

514
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for you?

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Speaker 6: I relax, you get the martinis?

516
00:23:54,559 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 8: What happened?

517
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Speaker 15: What do you take of Maricallen?

518
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 5: Isn't she's cute?

519
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Speaker 6: You're all cute?

520
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Speaker 13: An I put ice in? Anyway?

521
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 6: It's nasty without nasty anyway.

522
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Speaker 13: I hope it doesn't make you fall down the way?

523
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:10,079
Did poor Gordon?

524
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Speaker 6: Thanks?

525
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 13: What's the matter to dry?

526
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:16,559
Speaker 6: You? Open this bottle? Price?

527
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 8: Why?

528
00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:17,279
Speaker 12: Yes?

529
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 13: What's the matter?

530
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Speaker 6: Where are they the rest of the bottles? Oh? Yeah,

531
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,599
more of the same? Is this all your husband have

532
00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:29,960
a drink?

533
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 13: Yes, Gallons, it's a special brand. He even took it

534
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,119
with him the bars and people's houses. He'd sit and

535
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,279
drink them right out of the bottle like a little child.

536
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Then he'd be falling down drunk aporus. And that's how

537
00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:42,160
we lost so many friends. They dropped us like like

538
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like flies.

539
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Speaker 6: It was the end.

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Speaker 13: Who're your phoning?

541
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Speaker 6: Maxi? Sam Spain?

542
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:49,839
Speaker 4: Sammy?

543
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Speaker 6: What can I do on you on Martini? MAXI, Yeah,

544
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,559
they got around to the autompsey end. Yeah, they rushed

545
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,359
them through, got the report handy right in front of me.

546
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Speaker 4: Funny thing, sham doc said they should have saved themselves

547
00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:03,119
the trouble. He'd have been dead in a week or

548
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:04,039
two without no help.

549
00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 6: What from brain tumor a leaguean that says any alcohol

550
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:09,440
in him?

551
00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 4: None from drinking, Sammy?

552
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,039
Speaker 6: What about the headhoones? Accidental fall due to periodic fanning

553
00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:18,160
spells part of his condition? Thanks, Maxie?

554
00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 7: What is it?

555
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,279
Speaker 13: Sam? With martiniz poison?

556
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,559
Speaker 6: No, sweetheart, martinis were colored water.

557
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,039
Speaker 13: They couldn't. What made him get so drunk?

558
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:29,559
Speaker 6: He didn't.

559
00:25:29,559 --> 00:25:32,279
Speaker 13: He was sick, Sam who killed it?

560
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Speaker 6: Killed himself? He couldn't do He hired a gunman to

561
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do it. He planned his own murder.

562
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Speaker 13: Well, why didn't he even noticed something? He could have

563
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ruined us all.

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Speaker 6: Come here, a sweet heart, put your little hat on

565
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,440
Uncle Sam's shoulder. That's, sir, just what he wanted you

566
00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:51,240
to do. He wanted to ruin you. He let Mary

567
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Callahan flace him out of his interest in the company.

568
00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:55,160
He let Nesba juggle the books. He lets you go

569
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your way with Ernie. He let all three of you

570
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fix yourselves up with his nice set of motives from

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00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:02,519
as a jury get asked for it couldn't. The real

572
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,920
joker was the check he used to pay off the

573
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,240
man he hired to kill him. It bounced. It also approved.

574
00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:10,680
He planned his own murder, but he still has his

575
00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:14,079
revenge because the insurance it would have kept the corporation

576
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,960
from going broke won't be paid off on account of

577
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,480
a self liquidating cause.

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Speaker 13: Oh, Sam, darling, what's going to become of us?

579
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Speaker 11: All?

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Speaker 6: Well, Callahan and Naslitt will probably sue each other to death.

581
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,400
You might have to go to work and earn a living.

582
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:31,599
Speaker 13: Well, I have five hundred dollars. I might invest it

583
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,519
in something you already have.

584
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 6: Here's my bill.

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Speaker 13: But Sam, you didn't help me. What this is the end?

586
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 6: No it isn't, sweetheart. This is the beginning. Came here period,

587
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end of the end.

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Speaker 5: Well ask me you helped her?

589
00:27:01,839 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 6: No?

590
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 5: F Well, it just goes to show you show what

591
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,680
man's ingratitude. Man, What did mister Martini have against you?

592
00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:11,279
Speaker 10: Why?

593
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:17,039
Speaker 6: Nothing, SWEETHEARTI just needed a smart operator like well, no,

594
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,559
Johnny Madero was under.

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Speaker 5: Have you cashed that check? Mister Martini gave you well,

596
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,960
uh chet, Sam. Any bartender would know better than to

597
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,160
take a check from a man who drinks that much.

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00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,079
Speaker 6: You haven't been paying attention. He didn't drink. He didn't.

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00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,799
I was able to establish that later on.

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00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,559
Speaker 5: He believe ying Sam. For all anybody knew, he was

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a hopeless bronk. He was so.

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Speaker 13: Wonderful and trusting.

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00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,839
Speaker 5: But I do wish that you'd understand this. He was

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a hopeless bronk.

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Speaker 6: For the last time, Effie, he didn't really drink.

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Speaker 5: I'll just take this up, Sam, Will you call the bank.

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Speaker 6: I'll do that.

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Speaker 2: A final reminder, friends, whether you're going on a long

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vacation trip or just a weekend to the beach, be

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sure you've got a bottle and tube of Wild Root

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Cream oil tucked away in your suitcase. Do this and

612
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,720
you'll find it's easy and quick to spruce up again

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00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:19,759
after stepping out of the water or off the tennis court.

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For no matter where or when you use it, Wild

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Root cream oil grooms your hair neatly and naturally relieves dryness,

616
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removes loose dandrub so at home and away from home.

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Help yourself to handsome hair with Wild root cream oil.

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grooming first.

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Speaker 7: I'm great.

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Speaker 13: The plice of the paper in carbons.

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Speaker 6: You made carbon copies of that unimportant report like that,

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00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:05,680
It bounds will the estat doesn't settled yet.

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Speaker 13: You're so wonderful and trusting, Effie.

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Speaker 6: I am not wonderful and trusting. I am a hard

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boiled private eye.

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Speaker 5: I know, just a pity there's no money.

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Speaker 6: In it, and I'm also too trusted.

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Speaker 5: Have you ever thought of ceramics?

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00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,079
Speaker 13: Of what ceramics?

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Speaker 5: It takes virtually no capital. All you need is a

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00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,000
small furnace and some clay. And if you don't have

635
00:29:28,039 --> 00:29:31,000
any talent you can you can just make ashtrays.

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Speaker 6: Thanks, I already have one.

637
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,039
Speaker 13: You can pop them on a wheel, and you.

638
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 6: Can pot your hat on and a wheel one out

639
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,039
of here, and also take your furnace and play.

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Speaker 3: I love you when you're so gay and carefree.

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00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:45,559
Speaker 6: I am not gay and carefree.

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00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 13: I am a hard boiled riv.

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Speaker 6: Good night and assume me for you have back. Salvy sweetheart.

644
00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:09,599
Speaker 2: The Adventures of Sam Spade I Shall Hammett's Famous Private

645
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:13,000
Detective are produced and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade

646
00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:14,160
is played by Howard Dove.

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Speaker 6: Loreen Tuttle is Effie.

648
00:30:23,359 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: The Adventures of Sam Spade are written for radio by

649
00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:29,000
Bob Tolman and Guildoud, with musical direction by Lud Gluskins.

650
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,960
Gildoud directed tonight's broadcast in William Spear's absence. Join us

651
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,960
again next Sunday for another adventure with Sam Spade. Brought

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Speaker 17: Get Wild Root Cream Oil. Char It keeps your hair

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657
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Miss Lanoline. You've gotta get Wild Root Cream Oil, Charlie. Yeah,

658
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Speaker 2: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

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Speaker 11: Welcome back.

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00:31:28,759 --> 00:31:32,519
Speaker 1: As always, this episode was just a lot of fun U.

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The biggest reason is Joseph Kern and his character's very

665
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:42,160
colorful insults of Miss Callahan. This might be the hardest

666
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,720
I'd laughed at any Sam Spade episode. You also get

667
00:31:46,759 --> 00:31:50,880
a cameo by Jack Webb in this, and they actually

668
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,079
referenced Johnny Madero in the same episode NA a coincidence.

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It also features a group of people who are so

670
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:03,319
absolutely terrible they really back Sam Spade. I also think

671
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:08,559
the solution is pretty clever, as suicide, particularly by hipman,

672
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,079
is kind of rare in radio detective shows. Well, now

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00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:16,079
we're going to hear how the basic idea for this

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00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:21,519
story is transported into a very different series. The last

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radio series that Bob Tolman did before spending the last

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decade of his career in the industry writing for television

677
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:40,440
and film was the series mister Ia Moto. The character

678
00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:45,480
was based on the one created by John P. Markuand

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00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,640
in the thirties. However, this take on mister Moto was

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an American of Japanese descent who was born in San Francisco,

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00:32:56,119 --> 00:33:01,240
but he is still an international secret agent. Episodes tended

682
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to deal with the serious international issues of the day,

683
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,400
as he was very engaged in the Cold War and

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00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:14,960
with what was really viewed as a related battle against

685
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the spread of narcotics with two key ideas, first that

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the proceeds from the sales of illegal narcotics often went

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to support hostile foreign regimes and organizations, and secondly, that

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00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:38,920
the spread of illegal drug use would undermine the morality

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and mental health of America's youth, which was actually viewed

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as a goal for the drug smuggling. Motto is a

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00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,720
much more straight laced character than Sam Spade in a

692
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,720
very different series. How is Tolman going to adapt the story?

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Let's find out. In the case of the Dry Martie

694
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from October twentieth, nineteen fifty.

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Speaker 8: One, a wise person once said that vengeance is a

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dish that should be eaten cold. In the case of

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00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:24,079
the Dry Martini, the Avenger drank his vengeance from a

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00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:36,400
cocktail glass. It began as the routine investigation of a

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00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,320
tip on a West Coast smuggling operation. Although I arrived

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00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,639
in San Francisco after business hours, I found mister Jerome Pearson,

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00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,960
the head of the Monsoon Trading Company, still at work

702
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:48,840
in his office.

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Speaker 16: Well, mister Motto, this is indeed a pleasure. I wanted

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to meet you for a long time.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, mister Pearson.

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00:34:56,559 --> 00:34:59,039
Speaker 16: Ah, Yes, yeah, no, no, no, take the leather chairts

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00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:00,199
more comfortable you.

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00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,599
Speaker 8: I will not take up much of your time, mister Pierson.

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Speaker 16: Well, it's just on the point of knocking off of

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the day. Have a cattail.

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00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 8: No, no, thank you.

712
00:35:09,119 --> 00:35:11,559
Speaker 16: Nothing like a dry martini to step you back after

713
00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:12,639
a long, hard day's work.

714
00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 11: Sure you won't to join me.

715
00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 8: I'm quite sure, mister Pearson. Thank you.

716
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 16: Now, some people think that a martini should be stirred.

717
00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:22,400
I say, if you don't take a cartail, it's never

718
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,199
really cold.

719
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 8: I am told there are two schools of thought on.

720
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 16: That cold right, perfect, Well, then, mister Mono, what's on

721
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:35,199
your mind?

722
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 8: I was sent here to San Francisco to investigate an

723
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:46,039
anonymous letter about me, not specifically your firm, the Monsoon

724
00:35:46,159 --> 00:35:50,159
Trading Company was mentioned by name. In what connection, sir,

725
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,239
in connection with a smuggling operation? Were able to trace

726
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,480
the writer of this letter? Not yet, sir.

727
00:35:57,079 --> 00:36:00,559
Speaker 16: Hell is any smuggling going on this verm anything about

728
00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:01,159
a mister Moto?

729
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 8: Would it be possible for such a thing to occur

730
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,639
without your knowledge?

731
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 16: I don't know how. All our shipments are checked through

732
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,800
customs in the ordinary manner. All our records invoices, bill

733
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,400
of lading and so on are double checked by the

734
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,239
customs people and by us. What do you deal in

735
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,760
for the most part, Oh, textiles, strawmatting, that sort of

736
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,440
thing we we import chiefly from India and may and

737
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:28,320
laya yes, pardon me, I'm dividend.

738
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 8: What shipping firms do you deal with?

739
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 16: Well, we generally wait until we have a full cargo

740
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:38,159
and charter a ship. If you'd like to look over

741
00:36:38,199 --> 00:36:40,280
our records, our treasure, mister Harper will be only too

742
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:41,079
glad to show them to you.

743
00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 8: Oh thank you, mister Pearson. But when would that be convenient?

744
00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 4: Oh?

745
00:36:44,639 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 16: Say, first thing tomorrow morning, excellent, Please be on time.

746
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,599
Time's money, you know, by the way, Moto, my chauffeur's

747
00:36:53,639 --> 00:36:55,840
parked downstairs. If you'd like him to drive you anywhere,

748
00:36:56,159 --> 00:36:57,719
I pay him a large salary and you might as

749
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:58,440
well be earning it.

750
00:36:58,519 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, But my hotel is own a few

751
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:00,960
blocks away.

752
00:37:01,039 --> 00:37:03,519
Speaker 16: Oh, I was just going to mix another batch of martiniere.

753
00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:04,119
Speaker 11: You are enjoying me.

754
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 8: You are so very very kind, mister Pearson, But I

755
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,480
am afraid I must refuse.

756
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:14,760
Speaker 16: Well, Hey, that that drink really got to me. Good night,

757
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:20,760
mister Morows pleasure smonors to make your queen.

758
00:37:21,079 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 8: Thank you, mister Pearson, and good night. Oh and I

759
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,599
closed the door. Mister Pearson was happily preparing another shaker

760
00:37:35,039 --> 00:37:38,599
full of dry Martini. As I emerged from the building,

761
00:37:39,199 --> 00:37:42,920
I noted a large limousine of foreign manufacture standing in

762
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,320
front of a NOE parking sign. A uniform chauffeur was

763
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,039
leaning against it. You are you addressing me young men?

764
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, you come from the Monsoon officers.

765
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,679
Speaker 8: That is correct, you are mister Pearson chauffeur.

766
00:37:57,079 --> 00:37:59,679
Speaker 10: Yeah, what what condition did you leave?

767
00:37:59,719 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 6: The man?

768
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 8: A condition?

769
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,559
Speaker 10: How many more? Teenis?

770
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 8: He was preparing a second shaker when I let him.

771
00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:07,119
Speaker 6: Oh, oh, I.

772
00:38:07,199 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 10: Better get ready look for him out of there.

773
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 8: Before I had time to ponder on the behavior of

774
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,639
mister Pearson's chauffeur and his abrupt departure into the building,

775
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,320
a second car, a taxicab, drew up behind the limousine,

776
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,000
and two more worried looking people emerged from it. A plump,

777
00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:28,559
heavy set man carrying a briefcase and a thin, sharp

778
00:38:28,679 --> 00:38:31,199
faced woman also carrying a briefcase.

779
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 11: Excuse me, sir, did you see your chauffeur in this

780
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:35,840
car a moment ago.

781
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,039
Speaker 8: Why, Yes, he just went into the building. Oh, I

782
00:38:39,079 --> 00:38:41,159
hope we're not too late. If you are on your

783
00:38:41,159 --> 00:38:43,639
way to see mister Pearson, I believe you will find

784
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:44,400
him in his office.

785
00:38:44,679 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 11: What condition did you leave him in?

786
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,039
Speaker 8: Everyone seems very much concerned about mister Pearson's condition.

787
00:38:51,199 --> 00:38:53,119
Speaker 11: Well, I've got a pay roll for him to sign.

788
00:38:53,159 --> 00:38:55,039
I wan't catch him while he can still write.

789
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 8: Oh you are mister Harper. Yes, I am for you,

790
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,239
mister Moto, mister I A Moto.

791
00:39:01,679 --> 00:39:04,599
Speaker 7: I'm married Donahu, Miss Modo. I'm the attorney for this cooperation.

792
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,760
I want you to know that anything he said to

793
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,320
you while under the influence of martinis will not hold

794
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,199
up for five minutes in any court of law.

795
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,159
Speaker 8: And thank you, Miss Donne. You I will remember that.

796
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 11: You will have to excuse us now, mister Moto, come along, Mary.

797
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,159
Speaker 18: All shut up.

798
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 8: They disappeared rapidly into the building, and I walked on

799
00:39:28,079 --> 00:39:31,880
back to my hotel. When I rose the following morning

800
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:36,159
and read the morning paper, I saw a story headlined

801
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:42,840
Corporation head waylaid by mysterious assailant chauffeur foils would be

802
00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:48,079
kidnappers at offices of Monsoon Trading Company. Before I could

803
00:39:48,079 --> 00:39:55,679
read the text, my cliphone rang mister Moto speaking, I

804
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,920
must see you. Where are you at? Pleasants at the

805
00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:01,079
person in the hospital.

806
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 19: I left that pest house this morning. I'm at my

807
00:40:04,039 --> 00:40:08,199
residence one thousand Marina Boulevard. He'll take you exactly twenty

808
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,440
minutes of my cab. You'll meet me in front of

809
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,039
the building now, and we'll have our conference in my

810
00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:14,159
can route to the office.

811
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,280
Speaker 8: I will meet you there in twenty minutes.

812
00:40:16,599 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 18: Twenty minutes. Then I'll expect you. Time is money, you know.

813
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 8: As my taxi drew up to the curb in front

814
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,920
of the Canopian entrance, I saw mister Pearson, facing indignantly

815
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,880
up and down before the building. His great Hamburg hat

816
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:39,360
was perched atop an outsized turban of gauze bandage.

817
00:40:39,039 --> 00:40:44,679
Speaker 16: A moto earlier exactly one minute and twenty two seconds slate,

818
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,079
But now don't apologize, only waste more time. Come along, Yes,

819
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,639
cars just around the corner. Hey, that's over a large salary.

820
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,679
Mustn't keephim waiting, Uh huh, I suspect it as much

821
00:40:58,679 --> 00:40:59,960
do you drive a carmes from ote?

822
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 8: I see him and see who mister pis asleep from

823
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:07,000
the back.

824
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,199
Speaker 16: Seaton watch out.

825
00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:17,159
Speaker 8: I was behind the Pierson and slightly to the right.

826
00:41:17,679 --> 00:41:20,960
The shock of the rapid fire thirty caliber bullets lifted

827
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:23,360
him off his feet and knocked him against me. Before

828
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,920
I could regain my balance, the gunman had jumped out

829
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,159
of the limousine and into a graced vand that was

830
00:41:28,199 --> 00:41:31,599
double parked alongside. It was soon lost in the welfare

831
00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:33,880
of crassic on the boulevard, but I did succeed in

832
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,519
getting the first three numbers of the license plate. At

833
00:41:36,559 --> 00:41:40,599
that moment, a fragments of perfume tempered the exhaust fumes

834
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,239
from the teeming street, and I turned to face a

835
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,239
very very attractive, very very distract young woman.

836
00:41:46,519 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 3: Who didn't you time?

837
00:41:48,559 --> 00:41:50,639
Speaker 8: Don't lie to get yourself?

838
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:52,679
Speaker 3: Where's the ambulance?

839
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:53,079
Speaker 8: Please?

840
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 3: Where are all those people standing around staring at him?

841
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:57,039
Speaker 13: Make them go away?

842
00:41:57,079 --> 00:42:01,280
Speaker 8: I can't get it, madam. I ask you to stop

843
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:07,000
this at once, I said, stop it. Oh, that is

844
00:42:07,119 --> 00:42:08,559
very much better now then?

845
00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:09,639
Speaker 11: Who are you?

846
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,039
Speaker 3: Is his wife?

847
00:42:11,519 --> 00:42:12,519
Speaker 17: It was all my fault?

848
00:42:12,639 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 11: Oh.

849
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,079
Speaker 3: I called Ernie out the window and asked him to

850
00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:18,800
come upstairs. I wanted him return to Lagreie. This sends

851
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:19,440
the wrong color.

852
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 8: Peach, who is Ernie our chauffeur.

853
00:42:23,199 --> 00:42:25,079
Speaker 3: I was looking for the sales check when we heard

854
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:25,480
the shot.

855
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,679
Speaker 7: Oh is Jerome really dead?

856
00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 8: This card quite quite dead, missus Pearson. And may I

857
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,679
say that your grief is very, very touching. Poor Jerome.

858
00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:43,559
Speaker 3: He looked so natal stretched out there on the pavement.

859
00:42:44,519 --> 00:42:46,599
I keep thinking he'll get up and stagger on into

860
00:42:46,639 --> 00:42:47,239
the elevator.

861
00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 7: He didn't drink at all.

862
00:42:50,119 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 8: Well, why don't you go upstairs and relax? Missus Pearson?

863
00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gone.

864
00:42:56,079 --> 00:42:57,519
Speaker 10: Oh oh never, you are right?

865
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 3: Anywhere?

866
00:42:58,440 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 7: Did you go?

867
00:42:59,119 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 4: Oh?

868
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,599
Speaker 10: Done with the girl? I heard a car drive in,

869
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,400
poor mister Pearson.

870
00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 6: So my fault?

871
00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, it's mine if I only haven't mislaid

872
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,920
that sales check when I called you out the window

873
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:14,880
to come and here?

874
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,119
Speaker 16: Oh all that?

875
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:19,079
Speaker 4: All right?

876
00:43:19,159 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 18: All right?

877
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 11: What have we got here?

878
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 6: Who's the witness?

879
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,559
Speaker 8: I was with him when it happened, Officer name Moto?

880
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,599
Speaker 19: Mister I A all right, all right, clearer space there,

881
00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:32,039
come on, come on, let us through that, stretch over

882
00:43:32,119 --> 00:43:34,159
that or step over here out of the crowd.

883
00:43:34,199 --> 00:43:34,679
Speaker 11: Mister Moto.

884
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:35,679
Speaker 6: I want to get your statement.

885
00:43:36,119 --> 00:43:40,199
Speaker 11: I just want to say boys, pardon me, that is.

886
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 8: Quite all right? Are you ready for that statement?

887
00:43:43,119 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 4: Oh?

888
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,119
Speaker 11: Yeah, you got a pencil?

889
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:47,039
Speaker 6: Thanks?

890
00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, let's have it.

891
00:43:49,199 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 8: This man is Jerome Pearson, a chairman of the board

892
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,480
of an importing firm called the Monsoon Treating you have that?

893
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:57,079
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah.

894
00:43:57,599 --> 00:44:00,119
Speaker 8: Last night he was working later in his office and

895
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,239
was knocked out and robbed. He telephoned me this morning.

896
00:44:03,679 --> 00:44:05,519
He did not say what was on his mind, but

897
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:09,159
he seemed quite agitated. The gunman was crouched in the

898
00:44:09,159 --> 00:44:11,039
back seat of the limousine, and the muzzle of a

899
00:44:11,119 --> 00:44:13,559
carbine emerged when mister Pearson opened the door.

900
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 11: I see what did it look like?

901
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 8: I did not see him distinctly. If you will look

902
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,400
at the design of the car, you will see why

903
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,599
the backs and sides are almost completely enclosed.

904
00:44:22,679 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 6: Ah what about the getaway.

905
00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 8: I saw the getaway car and the back of the

906
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,599
killer's head. The car was a great two door sedan.

907
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,239
I saw only the first three digits of the license

908
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,639
plate five D nine.

909
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,159
Speaker 11: Have there anything else? Yes?

910
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 8: I may I have my pencil back? Please? Very very

911
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,119
funny ha ha, mister.

912
00:44:46,039 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 3: Motough, what did that policeman say to you?

913
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 8: Very little missus Berson, but I suggest that you and

914
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,559
that chauffeur get together on those alibis of yours.

915
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:59,039
Speaker 3: I don't know where Ernie is. Please, mister Moto, I

916
00:44:59,159 --> 00:45:02,280
can't say so questions just here. I'm afraid you would

917
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,239
it be legal if I just avoided them till I

918
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:06,480
can collect myself.

919
00:45:07,039 --> 00:45:09,199
Speaker 8: I do not know about the legality of the matter,

920
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,400
Missus Pearson, but it would most certainly be wide.

921
00:45:13,119 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 3: Oh where can we talk, miss Motel?

922
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:16,679
Speaker 8: Have you any suggestions?

923
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,599
Speaker 3: A little little cocktail lounge up on Lambard. Ernie and I.

924
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,960
It's just around the corner.

925
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 8: Very very convenient. I suggest we go there, Missus Pearson.

926
00:45:27,039 --> 00:45:32,679
Speaker 3: It's a dollar and it was all against my mother's

927
00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:37,480
a guy. I should have listened, but that's why I

928
00:45:37,679 --> 00:45:38,559
married mister Piers.

929
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 8: Yes, very very interesting. That brings us up to nineteen

930
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,360
hundred and forty three and it is only a quarter

931
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:44,840
to twelve.

932
00:45:45,199 --> 00:45:48,119
Speaker 3: You're just like him, always holding a top watch.

933
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 8: Over my head always, missus person. Well right, you know, yes,

934
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:53,960
I believe you mentioned that, but.

935
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 3: It's much more important than you think. He often fell

936
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:57,880
down and bumped his head.

937
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 8: Are you suggesting that you're her late husband's mysterious assailant

938
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:03,599
was a double martini.

939
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 3: Too picturesful before dinner. Ernie often had to carry him

940
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:08,199
up to his office.

941
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 8: Do you know why he was working late last night,

942
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:11,039
Missus Pison.

943
00:46:11,159 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 3: He had an appointment with the vice president of the

944
00:46:13,079 --> 00:46:15,880
firm and mister Harper. Are something had come up and

945
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,960
he wanted Jerome to sign some papers. I don't know

946
00:46:18,039 --> 00:46:22,400
what it wasn't the first time I waited outside in

947
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:22,800
the car.

948
00:46:23,559 --> 00:46:25,639
Speaker 8: You were in the car when Ernie spoke to me.

949
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, And then he came back to the car

950
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:30,719
and we talked.

951
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:37,599
Speaker 8: Ernie appears to have alibis upstairs, downstairs and all around you,

952
00:46:38,119 --> 00:46:38,800
Missus Bibson.

953
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 3: Well, then when the others came out and Jerome didn't,

954
00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:44,519
Ernie went upstairs to see.

955
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 8: Why the others, Oh, you mean mister Harper and miss Stunny.

956
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 3: Yes, she's the attorney for the company.

957
00:46:51,079 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 8: I know that.

958
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:55,280
Speaker 3: But if you think everything was legal between those two, well,

959
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,920
after all, who am I to call the kettle black?

960
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 8: Missus Pierson, what are you trying to tell me?

961
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,039
Speaker 3: Between you and me, mister Moto, I think that Donahue

962
00:47:05,079 --> 00:47:08,280
woman knocked him down a flight of stairs. In his condition,

963
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,239
he'd never remember.

964
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 8: Why are you so anxious to incriminate this dun Hue?

965
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 3: But what would you say? She was the last one out.

966
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 8: Of the building. Why did you not tell all this

967
00:47:17,039 --> 00:47:19,519
to the police when they investigated the attack on your

968
00:47:19,599 --> 00:47:20,239
husband last night?

969
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,159
Speaker 3: I didn't want to talk about his drinking. Things were

970
00:47:24,199 --> 00:47:27,119
bad enough already. That would just have been the end.

971
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 8: I see. And what do you want me to do

972
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:31,239
for you, Missus Bisson?

973
00:47:31,599 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 3: Prove that Mary Donahue did it and Ernie didn't.

974
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 8: I think I can rely on you to take care

975
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:36,639
of Ernie.

976
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,199
Speaker 3: Oh no, No, I don't want an alibi. And unless

977
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:44,840
I have to, he might get the wrong idea, wrong idea,

978
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,880
he might think advanta. I still care for him, and

979
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,679
I don't. Oh, I just can't stand him anymore. The

980
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,679
way he choose on those toothpicks is just the end.

981
00:47:55,559 --> 00:47:57,760
And besides, if his alibi is too good, I might

982
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,880
have trouble about that carbine I found in the backseat

983
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:00,440
of my God.

984
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,639
Speaker 8: Yes, but Missus Pearson, Missus Pierson, did you say you

985
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,760
found a carbine in the back seat of your car?

986
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,199
Speaker 3: Yes, and for all I know, it may be the

987
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:10,440
gun that killed my husband.

988
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,559
Speaker 8: Where was your car the time your husband was killed.

989
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 3: In the garage in the basement of the building where

990
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:15,639
our apartment is.

991
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 8: That is where Ernie appeared from just after the accident.

992
00:48:18,559 --> 00:48:21,519
Speaker 3: He didn't make any secret of it. Remember he said

993
00:48:21,559 --> 00:48:22,800
he heard a noise and went.

994
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 8: You did not allow him to say very much. Tell

995
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,880
me this car of yours? Is it a great two Doorsidans, that's.

996
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 3: The whole point. And the car the murderer escaped.

997
00:48:32,519 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 8: It was a grade two Doorsidan. What is the license

998
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,119
number of your car, missus Pierson.

999
00:48:37,199 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 3: Oh wait, it's on my key ring here five D.

1000
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 8: That is quite sufficient. Missus Peers. Why did you not

1001
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:46,800
tell me this before?

1002
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:50,039
Speaker 3: I couldn't get up the nerve, mister Moto, after I

1003
00:48:50,119 --> 00:48:52,119
heard you tell a policeman the gun that killed Jerome

1004
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,719
was a carbine, and the graycedan and all that.

1005
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,760
Speaker 8: It's the end. I agree, Missus Pearson. It might very

1006
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,719
well be the end for Ernie.

1007
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 3: Well, I don't care if it is the way he's

1008
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:04,719
always wandering off the job.

1009
00:49:05,639 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 14: I mean, it is just the end.

1010
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 8: I sincerely hoped that she was right, but I did

1011
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,480
not think so. And when I went to examine the

1012
00:49:20,519 --> 00:49:23,519
graceed Dan in the garage, I knew it was far

1013
00:49:23,679 --> 00:49:26,880
from the end of the matter. It was the getaway code,

1014
00:49:27,519 --> 00:49:30,599
but Ernie had turned into a very, very poor suspect.

1015
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,280
He was crouched on the carpet between the front and

1016
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,920
rear seats. He had been shot at closer range than

1017
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,880
Jerome Pierson, and the killer had used only one bullet

1018
00:49:42,639 --> 00:49:46,320
in the base of his brain. I decided my next

1019
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,000
call would be on mister Harper.

1020
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 3: Man Soon Trading Company. Good afternoon, I'm sorry, mister Harper's

1021
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,480
in conference. Yes, I'll see that he gets your message.

1022
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,559
Speaker 7: What can I do for you, sir?

1023
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 8: I would like to see miss Donne you please, Miss.

1024
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 3: Donnehue is in conference with mister Harper.

1025
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,599
Speaker 8: That's splendid. I wish to see them books. I have

1026
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,079
ordered not to disturb, thank you, but that is quite

1027
00:50:11,159 --> 00:50:13,079
quite unnecessary. I will do so myself.

1028
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 3: But there's a gentleman waiting ahead of you, sir.

1029
00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:18,199
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the idea shoving the splenet.

1030
00:50:18,199 --> 00:50:19,840
I'd push you in ahead of me. Huh. I got

1031
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,559
personal connections here, mister, see me and the chairman of

1032
00:50:22,599 --> 00:50:26,480
the board were I got connections. See, I'm getting very

1033
00:50:26,519 --> 00:50:28,079
nervous with the sinus toe, you follow me.

1034
00:50:28,599 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 11: I gotta see Hopper.

1035
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 10: I gotta see Horp, right, I.

1036
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,039
Speaker 8: Will that you Tell mister Harper that you are here.

1037
00:50:33,079 --> 00:50:35,599
Speaker 10: Mister tell him, tell him push on Martin, Push on Martin. Yes,

1038
00:50:35,679 --> 00:50:37,920
tell him, I ain't taking no run around. Tell him

1039
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:39,480
I got out of contacts only all listen the reason

1040
00:50:39,599 --> 00:50:41,480
I kind of. I gotta have a fix right now.

1041
00:50:42,199 --> 00:50:44,519
I settle for half only only No Robbert checks lay

1042
00:50:44,519 --> 00:50:45,079
owe me, they owe me.

1043
00:50:45,119 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 8: I will be most happy to deliver you they think.

1044
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,679
Please just relax, you do.

1045
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:52,679
Speaker 10: Tell the chairman on the board you'll tell them.

1046
00:50:53,159 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 11: He looks like I'm not here.

1047
00:50:55,159 --> 00:50:59,079
Speaker 8: I left struct mister Harper, my business with you and

1048
00:50:59,199 --> 00:51:03,039
miss Donnehue at the moment must take precedence over your

1049
00:51:03,119 --> 00:51:03,920
business with each other.

1050
00:51:04,079 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 7: Well, I'm glad you're here. Mister Moto. You know that

1051
00:51:06,599 --> 00:51:09,519
this bezzling old fools actually had the nerve.

1052
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 8: To threaten excuse me, miss done you. I presume you

1053
00:51:12,639 --> 00:51:14,280
are referring to mister Hopper.

1054
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 7: Who else but the dean of Double Entry.

1055
00:51:16,559 --> 00:51:17,119
Speaker 11: That's a lie?

1056
00:51:17,159 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 7: How look, why does he keep stalling when I asked

1057
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,559
him to see his books? Ask him that, mister Moto,

1058
00:51:23,079 --> 00:51:25,760
But I'm the attorney for the corporation and I have

1059
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:27,159
to make a tax return.

1060
00:51:27,599 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 11: Well, you won't need the books for that. The Monsoon

1061
00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:31,639
Company is Brooke.

1062
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,199
Speaker 7: Oh did Jerome peers and ask for explanations? Is that

1063
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:36,199
why you killed him?

1064
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,079
Speaker 11: Mission to her, mister Moto. This is the hag who

1065
00:51:39,199 --> 00:51:42,119
just informed me that she now owns fifty five percent

1066
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,119
of the common stock of this corporation?

1067
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 8: Is that true?

1068
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:45,199
Speaker 10: Miss donn you?

1069
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 7: Certainly it's true. I bought up Jerome's debts and threw

1070
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:52,400
an attachment on his docks. Perfectly legal, but not very ethical,

1071
00:51:52,639 --> 00:51:55,000
was it? When you met him? He wasn't competent to

1072
00:51:55,079 --> 00:51:58,039
run the firm dry Martini's one after the other.

1073
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 11: They came in very handy less night just before you

1074
00:52:01,079 --> 00:52:02,159
pushed him down the stage.

1075
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,159
Speaker 7: Just a minute, I think you'd better be specific and

1076
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,679
you make an accusation like that, mister Harper, gladly you.

1077
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:12,079
Speaker 11: Tricked your own into changing the beneficiary of his insurance

1078
00:52:12,159 --> 00:52:13,679
from whom to whom.

1079
00:52:13,559 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 7: The beneficiary was that muddle headed wife of Disney changed

1080
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,920
it to the Monsoon Trading Company, a corporation of the

1081
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,639
State of California, which.

1082
00:52:21,519 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 8: I gather is now mostly yourself, Miss Donnel.

1083
00:52:24,599 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 7: You're writing the wrong grief.

1084
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 8: Mister Motto, huh.

1085
00:52:27,639 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 7: You can't try a corporation for a murder.

1086
00:52:30,639 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 8: A personal responsibility can be fit.

1087
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 7: Not as darkholder. And that's all I am.

1088
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:39,119
Speaker 8: I believe you have a point there. On the other hand,

1089
00:52:39,639 --> 00:52:44,360
mister Harper as treasurer and first vice president. All right,

1090
00:52:44,559 --> 00:52:47,239
mister Loto, what do you want? I want to see

1091
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,719
those canceled checks. Gladly, mister Moto, just step into the

1092
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:52,519
next office.

1093
00:52:57,079 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 6: I was so.

1094
00:52:57,639 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 8: Surprised at he's some willingness to cooperate two, But when

1095
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,599
I had finished examining the cancer checks, I was even

1096
00:53:04,639 --> 00:53:09,679
more surprised. The Monsoon Company's payroll contained more checks for

1097
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,519
salesmen than the total net profit on legitimate imports, which

1098
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:18,079
was considerable. The most frequently recurring payee of these checks

1099
00:53:18,559 --> 00:53:22,760
was a person named Jacob Martin. I recalled the very

1100
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,840
nervous gentleman in a reception room who gave his name

1101
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,679
as Pusher Martin.

1102
00:53:28,519 --> 00:53:30,679
Speaker 11: Well, Moto, are you satisfied?

1103
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 8: Yes, thank you, mister Harper.

1104
00:53:32,079 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, what's your game?

1105
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:34,559
Speaker 10: Moto?

1106
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 7: How many child can see that those figures don't add upright?

1107
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 8: I am not interested in your business difficulties, miss done you.

1108
00:53:41,159 --> 00:53:44,400
I am not even interested in whom killed mister Pearson.

1109
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,440
I am only interested in the motive behind his death.

1110
00:53:48,559 --> 00:53:51,079
Speaker 11: Well, she did it because she cheated her way to

1111
00:53:51,159 --> 00:53:53,280
the top of the firm, only to find that nothing

1112
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,639
could save the business but your home's life.

1113
00:53:55,679 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 7: Inse now at.

1114
00:53:57,039 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 8: I came here to investigate a tip on dope smuggling

1115
00:54:00,079 --> 00:54:04,840
through your import business. Wha yesterday evening, mister Pearson seemed

1116
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,960
to have nothing to tell me. Last night, someone apparently

1117
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,599
attempted his life. This morning on the telephone, he said

1118
00:54:11,599 --> 00:54:14,719
he had something important to tell me. He died before

1119
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,760
he could tell it. I think I know now what

1120
00:54:19,039 --> 00:54:21,960
he wanted to tell me. Who was that that mister Harper,

1121
00:54:22,639 --> 00:54:25,599
through juggling the books, was able to carry on a

1122
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:31,039
smuggling operation without mister Pearson's knowledge. Recently, mister Harper appears

1123
00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:33,760
to have been caught short and you took advantage of

1124
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,679
the fact, missed one you that was Pearson's fat. He

1125
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,039
withdrew a terrific amount of cash the day before he

1126
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:39,639
was killed.

1127
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:40,519
Speaker 11: No explanation.

1128
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 7: I'll explain plenty when I drag you into court. You

1129
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,119
can count on me for a witness, mister Modo.

1130
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 8: My suspects were beguinea to cancel each other out, But

1131
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:57,000
of one thing, I was certain the actual shootings had

1132
00:54:57,039 --> 00:55:00,239
been done by a hired killer, and the fact that

1133
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,599
he operated in broad daylight on a crowded street taking

1134
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,760
such desperate chances indicated that he was either insane or

1135
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,719
a drug at it. I suspected the latter. As I

1136
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:17,559
left Harper's office, I observed Pusher Martin had decided not

1137
00:55:17,679 --> 00:55:21,119
to wait, but I soon located him in a dinger

1138
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,039
establishment called the Atlas Hotel.

1139
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 10: What do you want?

1140
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,039
Speaker 8: I want to talk to you, mister Pusher Martin?

1141
00:55:31,079 --> 00:55:32,639
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, come on, come on,

1142
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:34,599
crrent mee for me.

1143
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 8: Okay, okay? Was the stuff that Do not be so impatient.

1144
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 10: I don't feel so good. I tell you that that

1145
00:55:40,559 --> 00:55:41,679
monkey is let's breaking my back.

1146
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,079
Speaker 8: You can still feel worse.

1147
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:44,079
Speaker 11: What do you want? What do you want?

1148
00:55:44,079 --> 00:55:45,280
Speaker 10: I got money, I got a check for a.

1149
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 8: Grand will not suffice. I need information? You got nothing

1150
00:55:48,519 --> 00:55:52,239
from me? Who gave you that thousand dollars check? Martin Flamel.

1151
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 6: Six.

1152
00:55:54,639 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 8: I have plenty of time, Martin, and I feel very

1153
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:58,280
much better than you do.

1154
00:55:58,559 --> 00:55:59,639
Speaker 11: Will you find that croaker for me.

1155
00:56:00,039 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 10: I put them on the send for a jolly b faith.

1156
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 8: I will do what I can for you, but you

1157
00:56:04,039 --> 00:56:07,320
will have to help me. Who gave you that thousand

1158
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:07,920
dollars check?

1159
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:09,519
Speaker 18: I can't stand it no more.

1160
00:56:10,039 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 11: Speak at my back.

1161
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 8: It will get worse Martin. Okay, okay, okay, my shirt.

1162
00:56:16,599 --> 00:56:18,559
Do not exert yourself. I will get it.

1163
00:56:21,159 --> 00:56:23,039
Speaker 10: This little sponge on the cot I'm so wet, I'm

1164
00:56:23,039 --> 00:56:26,320
so wet. You see that the signature that the chairman

1165
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:27,920
of the board. Yeah, yeah, chairman of the board.

1166
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,519
Speaker 8: Who forged this signature? Martin?

1167
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1168
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:31,559
Speaker 10: He wrote himself. He wrote himself, right, might make in

1169
00:56:31,599 --> 00:56:31,920
fun of me?

1170
00:56:32,079 --> 00:56:34,039
Speaker 8: What was it supposed to be in payment for? He

1171
00:56:34,159 --> 00:56:36,119
wanted I should knock up his brother? Then you made

1172
00:56:36,119 --> 00:56:37,920
a mistake, didn't you. Huh?

1173
00:56:38,559 --> 00:56:40,559
Speaker 10: He's donning me exactly for the papers.

1174
00:56:40,599 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 11: The papers.

1175
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:42,159
Speaker 10: They got it wrong. They got it wrong. That was

1176
00:56:42,199 --> 00:56:43,800
his brother, his twin brother.

1177
00:56:44,119 --> 00:56:45,320
Speaker 4: That other guy, that shouf, he.

1178
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:46,199
Speaker 10: Kept hanging around the garage.

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Speaker 11: I had to burn him to the get out.

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Speaker 8: Do you know what you're thing?

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Speaker 10: Yeah? Yeah, I don't feel so good, so I know

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00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:51,639
I'm making sense.

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Speaker 11: Oh, I got to sweat something.

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Speaker 8: Do not discuss yourself, Martin, you will be in a

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very nice, cool place, very shot. After I had turned

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00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,239
push On Martin over to the police, I investigated his

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00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,039
story as thoroughly as I could at that late hour.

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Apparently it was quite impossible that mister Pearson could have

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had a brother, twin or otherwise. He was a first child.

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His mother died in child earth, and his father died

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00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:31,679
one month later. Unfortunately, I was not finished with Missus Pearson.

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00:57:36,639 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 3: Mister Moto, I've been calling and calling trying to reach you.

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I've been so worried.

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Speaker 8: It's just the end, This the time, Missus Parson, you

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00:57:45,559 --> 00:57:46,039
may be right.

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Speaker 3: Can I pix you a drink? There's nothing in the

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house but those prepared martinis Jerome used to drink. Is

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that all right?

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Speaker 8: I have never tasted prepared martinis, but I should be

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interested in sampling one of those, Missus Pearson.

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Speaker 3: I could use one myself. What did you think of

1202
00:58:02,719 --> 00:58:03,480
Mary Donna Hugh?

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00:58:03,679 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 8: Is it cheesy and the most interesting? Lady? That I

1204
00:58:08,039 --> 00:58:10,519
find you all most interesting?

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00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,679
Speaker 3: Jerome used to drink some cold, but I put in

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00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,840
even more ice than Nay, thank you, it doesn't make

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00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:19,639
you fall down the way it did poor Jerome.

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00:58:20,119 --> 00:58:23,079
Speaker 8: Yes, indeed, well, cheers, cheers.

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00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,519
Speaker 3: What's the matter to drive for you?

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00:58:27,599 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 8: Did you open a fresh bottle when you made these?

1211
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 3: Yes? What's the matter?

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00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 8: Where is that bottle, missus?

1213
00:58:33,639 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 3: Piece right there by the ice bucket?

1214
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 8: Ah? Is this all your husband ever drank?

1215
00:58:41,079 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 3: Yes, gallons of it. It's a special brand. There's a

1216
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:45,400
whole case underneath.

1217
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 8: I'd like to examine that.

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Speaker 7: Help yourself.

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Speaker 8: The same and this one too, Missus Bison. You are

1220
00:58:58,679 --> 00:59:01,679
quite quite sure that this is all your husband's ever drank?

1221
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 3: Why he even took it with him to bars and

1222
00:59:04,599 --> 00:59:07,360
in people's home I see he'd sit and drink them

1223
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,039
right out of the bottle like a little child. Is

1224
00:59:10,199 --> 00:59:13,039
then he be falling down drunks. Of course that's how

1225
00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:13,960
we lost so many friends.

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00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,519
Speaker 8: They dropped us just like like fly. I believe you

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00:59:16,599 --> 00:59:17,280
said before.

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00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 3: It was the end.

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00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:25,639
Speaker 8: Excuse me? Who are your phony ptience? Missus Pison? And

1230
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,000
I think he would be pretty.

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00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 18: Nothing homicide mister speaking.

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00:59:34,719 --> 00:59:39,239
Speaker 8: This is mister motto. Mister y has the autopsy been

1233
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:44,639
performed on Jerome Pearson yet? Do you have the reporter attend?

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00:59:45,079 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 19: You're right here in front of me. A funny thing, mister, motto.

1235
00:59:49,119 --> 00:59:51,440
The doctor said they could have saved themselves in trouble.

1236
00:59:51,679 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 8: Huh.

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00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:54,079
Speaker 18: He would have been dead in a week or two

1238
00:59:54,199 --> 00:59:55,159
without assistance.

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00:59:55,679 --> 01:00:02,679
Speaker 8: He was ill. What brain? Was there any alcohol present

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01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:03,159
in the body?

1241
01:00:03,639 --> 01:00:03,679
Speaker 4: No?

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01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:05,119
Speaker 18: No, none from drinking?

1243
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:07,679
Speaker 8: Is there a no tician on the head?

1244
01:00:07,719 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 18: Wounds now accidental fall through the periodic fainting condition?

1245
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 8: Thank you, mister Gedy, Thank you so very very much.

1246
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,239
Speaker 3: What is it, mister mool with the martinis pullet?

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01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 8: No, no, missus Pearson, quite the country The martiniz your

1248
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,679
husband drank contain nothing but colored water?

1249
01:00:28,159 --> 01:00:29,519
Speaker 3: Then what made him get so drunk?

1250
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:33,679
Speaker 8: He did not fall down from brunklmness, missus Pearson, your

1251
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:38,079
husband was a very, very sick man who killed him?

1252
01:00:38,119 --> 01:00:39,199
He killed himself.

1253
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 3: Oh, but he couldn't have you.

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01:00:40,599 --> 01:00:43,639
Speaker 8: He employed a gunman to do it. But it was suicide.

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01:00:44,159 --> 01:00:47,159
Speaker 3: And why didn't he leave a notice? Something? He could

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01:00:47,199 --> 01:00:48,000
have ruined us all?

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01:00:48,079 --> 01:00:50,719
Speaker 8: I imagine that is precisely what he wanted to do.

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You all thought that he was a hopeless drunk and

1259
01:00:53,519 --> 01:00:56,360
took advantage of him. He allowed Mary Donne to free

1260
01:00:56,519 --> 01:00:58,960
him out of his interest in the company. Let mister

1261
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,880
Harper juggle his book to cover a smuggling operation he

1262
01:01:02,079 --> 01:01:05,679
was engaged in, and let you go your way with

1263
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:10,960
Ernie in shure, Missus Pearson, your husband allowed all three

1264
01:01:11,039 --> 01:01:13,960
of you to furnish ourselves with as convincing a set

1265
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,519
of motives as a jury could ask for.

1266
01:01:17,039 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 3: But Jerome wasn't like that. He must have intended it

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01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:22,559
is a.

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01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 8: Joke in your case. That may very well be, but

1269
01:01:25,639 --> 01:01:27,800
he would not have involved me in his plan just

1270
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:30,960
for a joke. I think he sincerely wanted to bring

1271
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,360
miss Donahue and mister Harper to justice. He must have

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01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,840
wanted his suicide to be found out sooner or later

1273
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,239
in order to prevent them from collecting the insurance that

1274
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,920
would have kept the cooperation from going bankrupt.

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01:01:43,159 --> 01:01:47,559
Speaker 3: Oh really, Jerome was the end? Oh what's going to

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01:01:47,599 --> 01:01:48,320
become of us all?

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01:01:48,519 --> 01:01:51,559
Speaker 8: If Miss Donnehue and mister Harper do not go to prison,

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01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,360
they will probably sue each other to death. You might

1279
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,440
even be forced to earn your own living, missus Pearson.

1280
01:01:58,679 --> 01:02:02,920
Speaker 3: Oh well, my mother always used to say that hell

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01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:04,800
hath no fury like a dry martini.

1282
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:08,679
Speaker 8: But this you are so very very right, missus Pearson.

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01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:17,360
It is the end. I did not learn until later.

1284
01:02:17,559 --> 01:02:20,679
How thoroughly mister Pearson had planned his charade of the

1285
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:25,199
dry martinis. The final joke was the check with which

1286
01:02:25,239 --> 01:02:27,719
he paid the man he hired to kill him. It

1287
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,719
not only furnished proof that he was a suicide, it

1288
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:36,400
also bounced, thus depriving the assassin of his ill earned feet.

1289
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:40,079
Mister pusher Martin should have heeded the advice of the

1290
01:02:40,159 --> 01:02:48,360
Japanese sage who said, where profit is, loss is hidden nearby. Well,

1291
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:14,119
and now, maybe autumn fragrance of an October evening lie

1292
01:03:14,239 --> 01:03:17,559
gently upon you. Only did eyes, and the cares of

1293
01:03:17,599 --> 01:03:21,599
the day dripped away, as silently as the fallen petals

1294
01:03:21,639 --> 01:03:25,079
of a flower upon the serene waters of a stream

1295
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:30,639
curving between two willow trees, at a place where two

1296
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:35,880
lovers meet. Good Night, Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a less funny episode, but I think Toman did

1298
01:03:39,559 --> 01:03:44,719
a good job making the idea from Sam's fade fit.

1299
01:03:45,119 --> 01:03:49,480
The one thing I thought was clever was tying drug

1300
01:03:49,639 --> 01:03:54,719
smuggling into the murder case. Toman already had the drug

1301
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,880
angle kind of just there in nineteen forty eight, but

1302
01:03:59,079 --> 01:04:02,559
here he made it relevant to the plot. I do

1303
01:04:02,719 --> 01:04:06,719
think the attempts to Motorize Spades lines are a bit

1304
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:11,159
mixed in this episode. He does seem much more sardonic

1305
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,199
than Moto typically was in the rest of the radio

1306
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:19,159
series in the circulating episodes, But then again, these characters

1307
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:22,440
are pretty much as bad as the characters in the

1308
01:04:22,519 --> 01:04:28,039
Sam Spade story, so I couldn't blame Moto for being

1309
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:33,559
a bit frustrated. The biggest law on the rewrite was

1310
01:04:33,599 --> 01:04:38,159
when Pearson offered Moto a glass of his mix Martini. Now,

1311
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,119
given that this was water and it was key to

1312
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:45,760
his plan to fake being drunk, if Moto had accepted,

1313
01:04:46,079 --> 01:04:49,800
it'd be a huge problem and Moto would know right

1314
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,719
away that something was up. And now he may have

1315
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:57,519
been betting on Moto not accepting the offered drink, but

1316
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:01,599
still it seems like a rather pointless risk. Other than that,

1317
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:06,639
it was a pretty good recycling job that almost seamlessly

1318
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:11,000
brought a Sam Spade episode to life as an episode

1319
01:05:11,039 --> 01:05:14,280
of Mister Moto. Well, now it is time to thank

1320
01:05:14,559 --> 01:05:17,400
our Patreon supporter of the day, and I'm want to

1321
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,159
go ahead and think Bettina. Bettina's been one of our

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01:05:20,239 --> 01:05:24,840
Patreon supporters since May twenty twenty one, currently supporting the

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01:05:25,639 --> 01:05:29,239
podcast at the detective sergeant level of seven dollars and

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01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:32,280
fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks so much for

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01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:35,360
your support, Betina, and that will actually do it for today.

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If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your

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01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:53,800
back here tomorrow for the adventures of the falcon Wear.

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Speaker 20: After the Sergeant and I broke down the door, we

1331
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,559
found Anny. Yes, I still don't understand why he did

1332
01:06:00,599 --> 01:06:02,519
it now, it's pretty obvious he was working for the

1333
01:06:02,599 --> 01:06:04,519
Greek and he knew it was the chair once they

1334
01:06:04,599 --> 01:06:07,360
nabbed him. It's all my fault. If I'd done a

1335
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:09,920
better job, he wouldn't have turned out this way. Who's

1336
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,360
to say, I am. I want your help so as

1337
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:13,880
I can make.

1338
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Speaker 6: It up to him.

1339
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 2: Well, isn't it a little late?

1340
01:06:16,519 --> 01:06:19,599
Speaker 6: Well better late than never. I want you to find

1341
01:06:19,639 --> 01:06:22,079
the man they call the Greek and the Greek.

1342
01:06:22,199 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 20: Yes, I want to know who and what he is.

1343
01:06:24,159 --> 01:06:26,079
Speaker 6: Yeah, so do the police. They've been trying to identify

1344
01:06:26,119 --> 01:06:26,679
him for years.

1345
01:06:27,239 --> 01:06:29,719
Speaker 20: Danny knew Well, he certainly isn't going to spill it

1346
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:31,719
now there must be some way.

1347
01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:32,719
Speaker 8: No, forget it.

1348
01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:35,559
Speaker 20: I told you they know the police have been trying

1349
01:06:35,599 --> 01:06:38,559
to run him down for years. Well maybe they're making

1350
01:06:38,599 --> 01:06:41,039
the same mistakes over and over again. That should make

1351
01:06:41,079 --> 01:06:43,639
it easier for you. Well, I wouldn't know where to start.

1352
01:06:44,039 --> 01:06:47,880
I don't care about the where. The important thing is when,

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01:06:49,079 --> 01:06:51,119
and here's five hundred dollars to do it now.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,

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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detective Start yet,

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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.